I remember my dad buying candy a few weeks before Halloween every year when I was growing up to give out to trick-or-treaters. He got the good stuff too, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, M&M’s, Kit Kats, Twix, and Snickers. Never the Dum Dum Pops, Sugar Babies, or Necco Wafers. And every year, he’d have to […]

If you read my post about Little Sugar Addicts, then you know that we don’t do candy in our house (at least not yet). Does that mean we shouldn’t go trick-or-treating? With many holidays centered around food, it’s hard to imagine what is left when you take it away. We wanted JW to have the […]

I was fast asleep in the recliner with my 2-year-old when my dog, Baxter, started going crazy. I told him to quiet down and shushed the baby and hoped he wouldn’t wake up. Next, the doorbell rang, and Baxter continued to bark. I decided to play like I wasn’t home and didn’t answer the door. […]